Posted on 10/11/2011 8:22:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A thought crossed my mind the other day after finding out that Steve Jobs was adopted. How many pro-abortion types rely on their iPads, iPhones, iMacs etc., to get through their day? The local PPH maven wrote a letter to the editor expounding on how abortion was a great antidote to poverty. I would ask this woman how much more impoverished would the world be without Mr. Jobs contributions and I am not an Apple-phile. In fact I don’t even like Apple products, but have to give the man his due. He changed the world.
As an adopted son, I say Amen, Dennis. And again, Amen.
Steve Jobs is one possible outcome, when you remove a child from an oppressive culture - where great pride is taken in playing the victim, and no effort is made for either education or individual thought; and place him in an American culture where he was forced to assume personal responsibility, are encouraged to study and learn; and are given to freedom to pursue your own dreams.
If Steve Jobs had remained with his biological father, (who’s only claim to fame is that he had irresponsible sex with some nameless woman) - he would be yet another angry Arab, blaming someone else for every problem he has ever had, or heard of.
That's it in a nutshell; arabs are from a filthy, destructive, lunatic culture that has, throughout history, destroyed everything in their 'warpath'. They steal other culture's ideas and claim them as their own. They lie about 'who' they are and 'what' they've contributed to (nothing). Look at Obama, insisting that arabs/muslims had a large role in our founding.
So does it surprise anyone that these cretins would try to snatch Jobs and claim his legacy for their own?
As an adopted son, Jobs’ success points out the value of the culture in which he was raised. There is no need to comment on the usual contributions of his sperm donor’s culture; this is a time to celebrate the parent who gave him Western values that allowed him to make the world a better place. The bottom line is that exceptional individual outcomes are to a large extent a reflection of culture, not just genetics.
Any Schmuck can shoot sperm, It takes a REAL MAN to be a Father!
Good for the man who allowed a child to be adopted into a family where he could be loved and nurtured.
Aside from that praise, the only thing that the father should be cheered or boo’d for is whether or not his brain power or cancer was genetic.
Steve Jobs understood that his “real” parents were the people who loved him and supported him. It is an insult to the real parents to even mention his adoptive family at all.
I hate the media.
Ephesians 1:
In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
I sometimes wonder if the whole fascination with the notion of birth parents which is so common today is not on some level a rejection of the integral position adoption plays in Christianity.
If we do not take on the nature of our adoptive Father, our adoption is useless.
In the ancient world, adoption was final, you became the offspring of your parents, not a half and half almost non person (culturally speaking) like many would seem to have it today.
Likewise, people giving their children up for adoption seem to really want someone else to be responsible for raising their children, but have rights and privileges otherwise intact - this is not true adoption, no matter what the social services people seem to think.
Well said
"Marx replaced Hegel's "Spirit" by matter and economic interests. In the same way racialism substitutes for Hegel's "Spirit" something material, the quasi-biological conception of Blood or Race. Instead of "Spirit," Blood is the self-developing essence; instead of "Spirit," Blood is the sovereign of the world, and displays itself on the Stage of History; and instead of its "Spirit," the blood of a nation determines it essential destiny.
The transubstantiation of Hegelianism into racialism or of "Spirit" into blood does not greatly alter the main tendency of Hegelianism. It only gives it a tinge of biology and of modern evolutionism.
Karl Popper
Sorry, but I don't think I understood your last sentence -don't you have that backwards? Shouldn't you have said, "It is an insult to his adoptive parents to even mention the "real" parents at all", correct? Also, didn't you mean the adoptive parents loved and supported him? His "real" parents gave him birth, but his adoptive parents raised him.
I see the onus placed on adoption as a rationalization of abortion, and mentality that goes with it. “If i keep the child, then he grows up without a father, but since he is really mine alone, I will give him all the love he needs. No one else can give him the same love. Besides. If I know he is out there, I will worry that he is not being taken care of. Better that he die than suffer, and more important, that I not suffer.
Well, no. In the Bible, blood is life. Which is why the law forbade the drinking of the blood of animals, especially those sacrificed to other gods. For Catholics and many other Christians, the drinking of the cup is the drinking of the Blood of Christ, and the life that is in him.
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, having had recent painful experience with Arabia, wanted to find a safer trade route to the East, when the Italian explorer Columbus came by with a proposal. So, Obama was technically correct that arab muslims did have a large role in our founding. However, as he typically does, he left out the whole truth of the reason why.
You are correct. I live a backwards life some times!
Thanks SeekAndFind.
The sperm donor had nothing to do with the decision re Steve’s adoption. In 1955 it was all up to the bio-mother.
In his commencement address to Stanford in 2005, Jobs himself said his bio-mother, who chose to give him up for adoption, insisted that the adopting parents be college graduates. The family who was originally supposed to get her baby were a lawyer and his wife. They wanted a girl, and declined. The agency then called the Jobs, who said yes.
When the bio-mother found out the Jobs were not college graduates she initially refused to sign the adoption papers. The Jobs promised that the baby would attend college, so she finally agreed. But the sperm donor had no say in it whatsoever.
And, ultimately, he was very fortunate to have been adopted by a middle-class family. Observing their hard work and the value of the $ they saved to provide the promised education set him on the course that led him to such success.
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